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Osama bin Laden was not Saudi royal, his commoner family became rich in construction business. It was precisely the alliance of Riyadh with the States that moti
by varjag 7y ago
Osama bin Laden was not Saudi royal, his commoner family became rich in construction business. It was precisely the alliance of Riyadh with the States that motivated his jihad, so you are on the same page with him wrt American assistance.
At the time of attack, he was a fugitive from the Kingdom for nearly a decade.
- baybal2 7y ago> Osama bin Laden was not Saudi royal, I think this was the first thing Saudi court told the Americans. Whomever those guys were, they were integral to Saudi polity. > It was precisely the alliance of Riyadh with the States that motivated his jihad. Which did not preclude his affiliates from receiving money from "private" officials in his "exile" well into mid-naughties. His close relatives were continuing their life of minor socialites in the kingdom unimpeded up until the point US started demeaning the head of his son and few brothers during Obama. The Bin Ladin clan is more than just alive and well in the kingdom. They were the biggest bankrollers of the Saudi Royal Family, and still are.
- varjag 7y agoThere is no doubt about OBL provenance really, question is at which point you associate the act of a (former) citizen with his country of origin. One of the hijackers was Egyptian, can't remember ever hearing calls for severing (substantial) American ties with Egypt off that. As reprehensible Saudi regime was (and is, under the rule of bonesaw prince), saying that the USA supports Saudi despite 911 is factually exactly backwards.